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Breitfeld, Elise; Potter, Christine E.; Lew-Williams, Casey – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2021
Picture books inherently contain many parallel dimensions of information and serve as a rich source of input for children. However, studies of children's learning from picture books tend to focus on a single type of information (e.g., novel words). To better understand the learning-related potential of shared book reading, we examined 4.5- to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Young Children, Language Acquisition, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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DiYanni, Cara; Nini, Deniela; Rheel, Whitney; Livelli, Alicia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2012
This study explores connections between 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' performance in theory-of-mind tasks, their performance on an assessment of selective trust, and their decisions to (not) imitate the questionable tool choices of an adult model. The prediction was that all the tasks would be related, with improvements in theory of mind and selective…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Theory of Mind, Trust (Psychology), Imitation
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Deocampo, Joanne Agayoff; Hudson, Judith A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Research on children's understanding of video has shown seeming contradictions. Fourteen-month-olds imitate actions seen on TV (Meltzoff, 1988) and 18-month-olds are reminded of an event by watching video (Sheffield & Hudson, 2003) but 24-month-olds fail at a video-mediated object-retrieval task requiring dual representational understanding…
Descriptors: Imitation, Toddlers, Toys, Video Technology